Now that the Voidstone was destroyed, Ye Liuyun could only pin his hopes on the temporal fluctuations within his spatial realm.

He didn’t have to wait long. Half a day later, the flow of time in his spatial world began accelerating, gradually widening the gap with the outside world.

By the next day, when Ye Liuyun tested it again, the time dilation had indeed doubled.

Now, a single day outside equaled two days inside his spatial realm.

Thrilled by the progress, Ye Liuyun pushed to double the speed once more.

"That’s enough! Faster time flow consumes energy too!" Ye Ling reminded him sharply.

"Fine, let’s settle on one day outside, four days inside then."

Though it wasn’t as effective as the Voidstone, Ye Liuyun was satisfied with a fourfold acceleration.

But to his surprise, Liang Xue and the other women vehemently opposed the idea.

"You won’t be affected outside, but for every day you experience, we’ll live through four! In a few years, we’ll age far more than you!"

Beauty mattered to them. While a few years wouldn’t visibly age cultivators, they worried about the gap widening if they had to train for a decade or longer.

Before, they had endured it to keep up with Ye Liuyun’s progress. But now, with time moving four times faster most of the time, they couldn’t take it anymore.

Left with no choice, Ye Liuyun reset his spatial world’s time flow to normal and instead had his clone accelerate time in his own spatial realm.

They experimented with onefold, then twofold, before finally stabilizing at a tenfold increase.

To sustain it, Ye Liuyun supplied his clone with additional primordial energy, constantly converting it into demonic energy using Exchange Stones to replenish the reserves.

Ye Liuyun had initially planned to have his avatar speed up time only when necessary, keeping it synchronized with the outside world the rest of the time.

But Ye Ling informed him that such temporal adjustments consumed far more energy each time they were activated. It would be more efficient to maintain a constant accelerated flow.

From then on, anyone who wished to train at a faster pace would simply enter the avatar’s spatial realm.

Surprisingly, the women were quite pleased with this arrangement. They had the avatar carve out a special zone within the realm, completely free of demonic energy. This allowed everyone except Lei Ming to cultivate there safely.

Taking advantage of the setup, Ye Liuyun also relocated the non-human races like Mu Lai into the avatar’s spatial world, enabling them to accelerate their growth as well. These individuals had become valuable auxiliary forces, capable of providing significant support in battles.

As for the two half-beast corpse demon puppets he had captured, Ye Liuyun stored them away in his spatial world, keeping them as a last resort rather than deploying them regularly.

Once the temporal flow in the avatar’s realm stabilized, Ye Liuyun entered it to cultivate. This meant that everyone within his spatial world now experienced time at ten times the normal rate.

This time, however, the women raised no complaints. As long as they could stay synchronized with Ye Liuyun, they were content.

He continued his training until the entire Blade Corps returned from their mission.

The Blade Corps brought back some unexpected good news—during their battles against the alien races and corpse demons, they had encountered several Tier Three Celestial beings among the aliens and successfully eliminated them.

Now, this elite force of just two thousand soldiers had grown significantly stronger, tempered by their harrowing journey through the death realm and further honed through relentless training.

"Let us join the fight!" Tian Dao Ye pleaded with Ye Liuyun.

Previously, Ye Liuyun had kept them from engaging the alien elites, fearing they might be wiped out by the Three-Eyed aliens or annihilated by spatial power wielders.

"Our strength has improved considerably," Tian Dao Ye argued. "Further training won’t yield much more progress. We’d grow faster through actual combat!"

She understood his hesitation—he didn’t want to risk losing this elite unit.

Ye Liuyun pondered for a moment, realizing that the number of powerful warriors dispatched by the alien races was increasing. It was time to unleash the Blade Corps into battle.

After all, they had undergone extensive training, but without real combat experience, their skills would never truly solidify. Though some might perish in battle, martial cultivators grew stronger through relentless trials and survival of the fittest. With that in mind, Ye Liuyun agreed.

"Very well," he said, "but during combat, split into teams of three and spread out!" He emphasized the instruction.

"Understood!" Ye Tian-dao replied firmly.

With that settled, Ye Liuyun retrieved the local source energy before leading the group toward the next alien altar.

For this assault on the alien stronghold, Mulai, the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon, and the Vermilion Bird formed one team, while twenty silver-armored aliens lurked within Mulai’s spatial realm, tasked with seizing control of the altar.

Ye Liuyun, his doppelgänger, the Demon Vine, and the Demon-Sealing Stele focused their efforts on the Three-Eyed aliens first.

Meanwhile, Ye Tian-dao dispersed the entire Blade Corps into three-member squads, coordinating between groups to eliminate enemy forces.

Ye Liuyun and his seasoned fighters executed their roles smoothly. However, the Blade Corps suffered losses—three soldiers were ambushed by a hidden Three-Eyed alien, and seventeen others fell victim to unfamiliar combat tactics against space-warping foes.

When the battle concluded and casualties were tallied, Ye Liuyun felt a pang of sorrow but remained silent. Becoming true warriors required facing peril—there was no other path.

The Blade Corps retreated into the doppelgänger’s spatial realm to analyze their mistakes, devise countermeasures against the alien elites, and reorganize their squads, redistributing members based on their spatial manipulation abilities.

As for the mission to eradicate the alien legions and the corpse demons, Ye Liuyun entrusted it to Yu Xiaofeng and his million-strong army.

"Stay vigilant," he warned. "The alien forces may conceal formidable warriors among their ranks."

Ye Liuyun had warned Yu Xiaofeng in advance, even preparing contingency plans for encountering the Three-Eyed Tribe or other alien races with formidable spatial abilities.

The final strategy was straightforward: against the Three-Eyed Tribe, they would deploy their falcon units for assault. As for those with spatial powers, there was no perfect countermeasure, so Ye Liuyun instructed them to bring along the Blue Armor Tribe and other spatial-capable allies as reinforcements.

True to Ye Liuyun’s predictions, Yu Xiaofeng’s forces soon faced these very threats.

When battling the Three-Eyed Tribe, they lost several falcons but ultimately wiped out the enemy. Against the spatial-powered aliens, they retaliated with the Blue Armor Tribe and others. Though the army suffered casualties, they emerged victorious in the end.

However, some of their equipment—falcons, war chariots, and energy cannons—was seized by elite alien warriors.

This was intentional. The aliens aimed to reverse-engineer the stolen gear. Yet, against foes with such spatial prowess, the army had little choice but to let it happen.

Ye Liuyun consulted Tong Xin and learned that while replicating the falcons would be challenging for the aliens, the war chariots and energy cannons wouldn’t pose much difficulty.

To prepare for the inevitable—aliens arming themselves with these weapons—Ye Liuyun ordered Tong Xin and his team to mass-produce more puppet beasts. These would serve as a defensive buffer for the army once the enemy adapted the stolen technology.